Adds New Threat Intelligence Partners for Faster Detection and Response

BEDFORD, MA, August 16, 2016 – RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced that it has deepened its bench with new integrated threat intelligence partners for the RSANetWitness® Platform. The RSA NetWitness Platform is designed to incorporate threat intelligence from customers, threat intelligence partners, RSA experts and the RSA customer community through Live Connect. By utilizing additional threat intelligence across logs, packets and endpoints, from its expansive network to enhance an organization’s ability to optimize their ability to find both known and unknown threats.

“Since threat actors change their tools and techniques, threat intelligence has a shelf life. That means security teams need to be armed with great visibility and a variety of current sources of threat data to bring the attacks into view. We are continuously expanding our ability to ingest one of the most inclusive variety of data sources, including crowdsourced and STIX formatted threat intelligence, to provide comprehensive visibility into emerging threats and empower our customers to immediately act on the valuable insights uniquely provided by the RSA NetWitness Platform across logs, packets, and endpoints,” said Grant Geyer, Senior Vice President, Products, RSA.

The crowdsourced threat intelligence through Live Connect allows for faster identification of new attacks and more accurate prioritization of incidents. RSA will be adding both Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) and Threat Intelligence Content (TIC) partners. The new TIP partners include ThreatConnect and Soltra, which manage various sources of threat intelligence (internal, 3rd party, open source, etc.). The new TIC partner, Recorded Future, provides a real-time threat intelligence product that collects, organizes, and analyzes web information to help security teams proactively defend against cyber attacks. These threat intelligence content providers are utilized by the RSA NetWitness Platform and are designed to offer security analysts real-time context about an investigation so they can more quickly detect and respond to an incident.

RSA helps more than 30,000 customers around the world take command of their security posture by partnering to build and implement business-driven security strategies. With RSA's award-winning cybersecurity solutions, organizations can effectively detect and respond to advanced attacks; manage user identities and access; and reduce business risk, fraud and cybercrime. For more information, go to www.rsa.com.

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